Cuatro hermanas

In the early 1950s, Matthew Soames and his wife Callie are enjoying the end of the summer on their farm in the outskirts of Renfro, Missouri. It was on this very farm that they raised their four daughters: Jessica, the oldest; Leonie, the responsible one; Mathy, the indomitable one who abandoned her studies to marry a stunt pilot; and little Mary Jo, who left

Overview

In the early 1950s, Matthew Soames and his wife Callie are enjoying the end of the summer on their farm in the outskirts of Renfro, Missouri. It was on this very farm that they raised their four daughters: Jessica, the oldest; Leonie, the responsible one; Mathy, the indomitable one who abandoned her studies to marry a stunt pilot; and little Mary Jo, who left the farm when she was really young to work in television in New York. Just like every other year, three of the daughters visit their parents for a few weeks. The end of their visit elicits memories of both the good times and the bad that marked the passing of time and that seem to have dominated the lives of the four sisters. However, more significant than anything that transpired is the profound love that has kept them tied to each other all these years.

Editorial Reviews

"It's hard to say which is more surprising: that Jetta Carleton's The Moonflower Vine is her first novel, that it's her only published novelor that it's essentially been forgotten. . . . Among the great pleasures of the novel . . . is the writing, which captures both the beauty of the natural world and the complexities of human emotion." Washinton Post, on the English-language edition